Word: gehrig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another brace of biographies. ABC's Cavalcade Theater offered the life story of Jackie Jensen, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, but its only dramatic high point seemed to be that, except for baseball, Jackie might have been expelled from junior high school. On Climax!, The Lou Gehrig Story possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute to Baseball, which made a couple of daring moves by putting...
Year after year the fights rage around the hot stove: who were the greatest baseball players of all? Every fan has his favorites; naming an all-star team* is one sure way to start an argument. Should Collins be put ahead of Lajoie at second? Was Gehrig better than Sisler on first? Only at one position is there no competition. The tallest tales oldtimers tell ring true when they talk about Shortstop John Peter Wagner...
...Yankee fan is a complacent, ignorant fat cat. [He has] been fed on victory and on great dull stars such as Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, and even these men they do not appreciate...
...couple of rookie pitchers, Don Bessent and Roger Craig, hold off the opposition and give the Dodgers' sore-armed veterans a rest. At bat, he is once more teaming up with Centerfielder Duke Snider to make one of the toughest one-two hitting combinations since Ruth and Gehrig. Campy settles into the batter's box with sure confidence-legs spread, left foot in the bucket so that he is half facing the pitcher-and he rattles out base hits, and moves with the swift authority that is the secret dream of American youth...
...buildings that have come to typify Columbia University to the outside world. John Jay Hall, Hamilton Hall, the new Bradley Library, and others rise straight up like huge apartment houses, finding space in the air that Columbia does not have on the ground. The farm land on which Lou Gehrig once awaited home runs now supports a small area of grass, the only campus the University can provide. It is about half the size of the Yard and is the most convenient method of distinguishing the University amid the Broadway traffic and tall buildings of that part of New York...